Echoing the same experience here - only issues have been with their provided router. I haven't had the bricking issue, but I have had the dropped connection issue.

I took the opportunity on Black Friday to buy a mesh system. I haven't had any problems in the last 2 weeks, and one room with spotty coverage before is perfect now. Their provided router is a modem/router combo, so it has to stay in the chain, but you just connect a new router to it and turn off WiFi on the old router.

I guess it depends on what part of town you live in because the last time I had an outage from Mediacom was over a year ago, and I work from home so I'm almost always online.

Mediacom has had no issues for me over the last year. However, I switched to AT&T fiber a week ago and I'm loving it so far. It's $80 for me now compared to $100 with Mediacom (comparable speeds). A couple more perks of switching to AT&T are that upload speed is matched to download speed and the router provided has WiFi 6 on it! Increased upload speed is GREAT if you're a gaming couple that streams like my wife and I. I didn't start this comment intending to make a short story commercial.

Cornerstone jewelry has a lot of cool estate stuff, they also have stuff they haven’t put out yet, so if you are looking for something in particular just ask the sales staff.

I have had them since they started in Springfield and have had very few issues. My biggest problem has been that their routers aren’t the best. They will occasionally drop connection to my phone but it’s usually fixed by turning my Wi-Fi on and off on my phone. I’ve had two routers bricked by updates, which was unfortunate, but was able to get a tech out the same or next day. Calling support works better than their chat service.

I probably went about a month ago. Some of the more well traveled trails might be really muddy at the moment (the trails east of 65) So I would recommend wearing nice boots or shoes you're not afraid to get dirty. I like to hike the West side as it's less traversed and the trails are more intact, But there are water crossings on several parts of the trails on the West side. We've had a lot of rain so I expect the Creek to be going pretty good.

I’m a fan of Brightspeed if you can get it, but their equipment (provided modem/router) really sucks - just a heads up if you’re a power user.

Oh, that's actually really good because centurylink sucked ass, I thought they rebranded because everyone hated them lol

okay, service is back up and running…

You may also check T-Mobile home internet if it’s available to you. It isn’t perfect but I carried them for a year or so and the speeds were consistent around 50mbps and I never remember downtime.

They bought centrylink and all their contracts in the Midwest.

Isn't Brightspeed just Centurylink rebranded? That's the impression I got when I looked it up after CL switched me to it automatically

There used to be a place called MarGorgeous Boutique over on Republic Rd. Peculiar logo, an M with a bunch of dots running up the side. But they were run out of business awhile back.

Good luck in your search.

That's what it says for me too. Can't come soon enough!

They're not here for me yet, but I've heard nothing but fantastic things about them. Very excited for them to hopefully be available in my neighborhood soon!

We have Century Link. Its fiber optic.

When we first moved to my house last year, we were using T Mobile, since that is our phone company, switched to CenturyLink because our IT friend has it and recommended it.

T Mobile had sudden drops, which isn't good because I've been working from home since April 2020.

I'd highly recommend CenturyLink if it's in your area.

You got it.

I've never played before but it sounds fun and I am looking for some friends. If you get a group going let me know :)

the tech did not show up, so i am assuming that they determined it to be an outage… however, my service is still down.

u/patricknett and his family are amazing people. When I was a child, my dad took us to their previous restaurant, Thai House, every other week or so. My father passed away when I was 17–shortly before Patrick’s father (Patrick Sr.) closed Thai House and opened Thai Xpress. Life moved on, I went to college, I moved to St. Louis. When I returned the first time after my dad’s death, Patrick Sr. asked about my father, who was theoretically nothing but a repeat customer to him. When I told him my father had passed, he WEPT with me. And ever since, no matter whether I return a month later or two years later, Patrick Sr. makes a point to come talk to me and ask about all my siblings and mom by name—and he usually gives me an order of my favorite fresh spring rolls on the house. Absolutely precious family. They value their customers more than some value their own family. I will never stop supporting them!

If you DM some details I'd love to jump in on something

Thanks for that. Available end of March, 2023 in my ’hood. In the list to get notified!

The paper character creation is what always intimidated me, the app makes getting started so much easier.

Fiber internet is cheaper than both AT&T/Mediacom. At least for me it was and I get at least 10x the speed with more reliable uptime.

Check out Brightspeed and see if fiber is installed in your area. I pay $65 a month for 1 gig. Here's a link that allows you to input your address to see if fiber is available in your area and what plans you have access to.

Yep. We are on the new fiber through Brightspeed/used to be Quantum and we love it. 900up/down speeds are incomparable.